Ali, I have the exact same hat, ahem, we got it in Bali on our belated honeymoon and it is what the locals would wear in the rice paddies to work!!!

(It currently sits on top of our dining room buffet, LOL).

Boohoo, I was thinking of you this morning (or evening, my time) and wondering how Emily was going. As Jeremy started full-time school earlier this year (they do it a year before Canada but he does go into Grade 1 in February next year). Hope she goes well and enjoys the new school.

I hope grade 1 is great! I live around the corner from my grade 1 teacher and I loved her!!!
And … the hat. Hilarious!!! You should have asked her where she got it. Just be glad your kids weren’t with you.

Dude! those were all over ‘taste of chicago’ in july. im all for them if they are the norm in your country, or the rice paddy job is calling? downtown chicago while eating something fried on a stick?? not so much.